History & Special Collections Division

THE UCLA HISTORY OF PAIN COLLECTION

• Oral histories with scientists, physicians, and other health professionals in the field of pain, and with chronic pain patients. Thirty have been completed of the core collection of fifty interviews. These include interviews with leading pain scholars and clinicians such as John Bonica, Kathleen Foley, Ainsley Iggo, Ronald Melzack, Cicely Saunders, Richard Sternbach, and Patrick Wall. Master copies of the tapes and transcripts will be deposited in the Biomedical Library after final review by the oral author.
• Personal papers of pain pioneers William K. Livingston (1892-1966) and John J. Bonica (1917- 1994); and
• Archival records of the American Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain. Document collections will be processed according to UCLA Archival standards for deposit in the Biomedical Library and finding aids developed to aid scholar access. A Master Guide will be available to all the collections by spring 1998.
• Group interviews with leaders in the pain field, recorded on videotape for deposit in the Library. Two group interviews have been completed: "Perspectives on Pain" (1993), "The Bonicas: Passion is the Fuel of Life" (1994), and a third is in editing.
• Bibliographies of books, journals, and other materials relating to pain in the UCLA Biomedical Library; and listings of source materials available at other libraries and archives.
• Educational programs, including presentations at scholarly conferences, sponsored workshops, publications in scholarly journals, and curriculum materials, including audiotape, videotape and computer-accessible formats.

JOHN C. LIEBESKIND: Professor, Psychology and Anesthesiology. Past President, American Pain Society. Member, National Academy of Sciences. liebesk@psych.sscnet.ucla.edu

SHARON TRAWEEK: Associate Professor, History. Author of Beamtimes and Lifetimes: the World of High-Energy Physicists (1988). traweek@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu

ANNE GILLILAND-SWETLAND: Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science. swetland@ucla.edu

MARCIA L. MELDRUM: Assistant Professor, History. Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Award, SUNY Stony Brook, 1994. meldrum@history.ucla.edu

KATHARINE DONAHUE: Head, History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. kdonahue@library.ucla.edu

DALE TRELEVEN: Director, UCLA Oral History Program. President, Oral History Association, 1994-1995. treleven@library.ucla.edu

HEIDI SANDSTROM: Archivist for the John J.Bonica Papers, UCLA History of Pain Collection. hsandstr@ucla.edu

Received as of June, 1996:

• APS Archives, 1980-90
• IASP Archives of the International Symposium on Pain, Issaquah, Washington, 1973, and the First World Congress, Florence, Italy, 1975 (audio recordings of the proceedings of both meetings)
• Personal Papers of John Bonica
• Personal Papers of William K. Livingston

• "Oral Histories in the Field of Pain," John C. Liebeskind, Southwestern Oral History Association Meeting, Riverside, California, April 29, 1995
• "The UCLA Pain Oral History Project (panel)," John C. Liebeskind, Leah Robin, and Marcia L. Meldrum, Oral History Association National Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 20, 1995
• "The Creation of a New Collection," Katharine Donahue, Annual Meeting of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences, Buffalo, New York, May, 1996
• "Drawing the Thin Red Line: Interdisciplinary Debates in the Field of Pain, 1946-1970," Marcia L. Meldrum, Third British-North American Joint Meeting of the History of Science Societies, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 1996

For further information about the UCLA History of Pain Project, please write, call or e-mail:
John C. Liebeskind, Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, (310) 825-2388, liebesk@psych.sscnet.ucla.edu

For further information about the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History Division, please write or call:
Katharine Donahue, History & Special Collections Division, Biomedical Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, (310) 825-6940